While the Pasta Cooks: 100 Sauces So Easy, You Can Prepare the Sauce in the Time It Takes to Cook the Pasta

I like this book because the recipes are delicious and are quick and easy to make. Most of the recipes have 10 or fewer ingredients and nothing too exotic that it can't be found at the local grocery store. In fact, I often picked up this cookbook to see if I could find a recipe with ingredients I already have on-hand so I could make a last-minute dinner. The variety in the recipes also gives me inspiration to change up the ingredients a bit to create my own sauces. The book includes a number of sections: Tomato Sauces Herb Sauces Dry Sauces Meat Sauces Seafood Sauces Vegetable Sauces Cheese Sauces Stir-Fried Sauces Uncooked Sauces Creamy Sauces Recipes samples include "Tomato Mint Vinaigrette", "Marinated Artichoke and Feta Sauce", "Hot Pepper Clam Sauce", "Lemon Scallop Sauce", and "Sicilian Meat Sauce" to name a few. The format of the book is simple, on recipe per page, with the ingredients highlighted so it's quick to see if you have them on-hand. There aren't any photos for the recipes which may have enhanced the cookbook a bit, but the recipes are still delicious. This is a good cookbook to keep on hand so you can throw together a quick and delicious pasta dish at the last minute.

First of all this book ain't cheap so I was rather disgusted that if you exclude the cover it contained not one single picture .... OK so it may be hard to take a picture of pasta sauce bubbling in a skillet but .....Now for the good part ... recepies in this book are stupendous and many are quite unique with some equisite new flavours for pasta sauce that I think I've been making for over 30 years or so. Although the book is titled 'while the pasta cooks' and its true that all the sauces are whipped together in a pan or wok the intriguing flavours presented by the authors usually will require some planning and a stop at your local supermarket .... The flavours presented in many of these recepies are so unique, do not fall into the tempatation to either skip or subsitiute ingredients because the simplicity of the recepies makes them very very unique .... nuff said ... Appart from my whining about the pictures this is one great cookbook ....

I can't believe this book is out of print! It is a great cookbook to have around, because the sauces are so quick to prepare. I've also found the recipes very forgiving, if you don't have exactly the same ingredients.

This is a great cookbook for those who do not enjoy spending all day in the kitchen, but who still want a great meal. I have enjoyed every recipe that I have tried

Simple, straight-forward, most recipes have few ingredients, you can cook most of them quicker than you can make one of those frozen pasta dishes in a bag. I have prepared many of them and they are really wonderful, the people you cook them for will think you spent all day cooking for them